Did
Abel or Cain Offer a Lamb in Sacrifice to God?Archive of Comments and Discussions - Questions and Answers From All-Creatures.org

By Brandon Harris - 11 Jul 2013

Jer. 8:8 speaks how the Pharisees and scribes would twist the words of
the law for their own benefit, not at all stating that the law itself was
invalid.

2 Timothy 3:16

"All scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching,
for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness..."

Therefore, if the scripture is the words of an almighty God, who has the
power to corrupt what He has written?

The Lord, the author of life, commands that the only redemption for sin
is blood. He gave Adam and Eve and everyone following them the commands of
the different types of sacrifice and what The Lord would accept each of them
for.

The Lord commanded them that the offering must be a pure, undefiled
animal, and that its blood must be spilled and fat burned and that sacrifice
would compensate for the sin everyone commits against God.

Now The Lord did not say to just sacrifice any animal, it had to be the
best, the purest, with least defect.

Genesis 4:3

"In the course of time, Cain brought to The Lord an offering of the
fruit of the ground..."

Whereas "Abel also brought the firstborn (the most prized) of his
flock..."

The Lord commanded many different types of offerings for different things
but they had to be the best. The Lord did not accept Cain's offering because
he gave the garbage fruit that had fallen to the ground. His heart was not
in a place where he feared The Lord or cared to please Him and the proof is
that he sacrificed the garbage that he didn't want.

But on the flip side, Abel gave the best that he had unto The Lord, and
The Lord, looking at HIS HEART of sacrifice was pleased.

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